2. The administration is confident it will be assisted in its chicanery by the mainstream media.

It's worse than that, because there IS no compromise. I don't mean that the compromise isn't worth much, I mean there literally is no compromise.

Prefaced by 17 pages of the kind of
rhetorical squid ink that President Obama defensively deployed at his
press conference, the words that have the force of law appear on pages
18 to 20. That’s where the actual amendments to the Code of Federal
Regulations are made by three departments — Treasury, Labor, and Health
and Human Services — that Congress previously granted joint oversight of
employer health plans.